This year I'm switching to noisy desperation.

Please note the president does not need Congress to vote to force him to release the Epstein files in order to release the files.

So the baristas at our local coffee shop know the names and faces of everybody within a 20 mile radius, but the Secretary of Homeland Security can't recognize a current member of the U.S. Senate.

Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files...

It's grotesque

People who say things like "we achieved racial equality through MLK doing peaceful protests" tend to ignore three major facts:
1. We never achieved racial equality.
2. There were literally hundreds of violent race riots in the 60s.
3. They killed MLK. They fucking shot that dude anyway. Come on.

Healthcare is not really necessary, you see, because we already have Heaven.

Can't wait for AI to replace all the software engineers so humanity can finally achieve its ultimate goal of No One Remotely Understanding How The Damn Computer Works.

Elon Musk opens up: Admits DOGE has fallen short of expectations It had the feel of a de-facto exit interview for Musk, who's planning to scale back his time in Washington .

Today in weird: "DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism," he said. "Buddha isn't alive anymore. You wouldn't ask the question: 'Who would lead Buddhism?'"

This is a terrible story but the details are so unbelievable it's worth clicking through to read the whole thing.

I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights.

Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.

Three judges, including two Trump appointees, rule against the Department of Education’s anti-DEI policy | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s efforts to crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs suffered a major legal blow Thursday as three separate judges – two of them appointed by the president – rule...

Update on the "Dear Colleague" letter

just pure evil. what more is there even to be said

Trump says he wants to imprison US citizens in El Salvador. That's likely illegal President Donald Trump keeps talking about sending U.S. citizens who commit violent crimes to prison in El Salvador. But that's likely illegal.

Credit to the Associated Press for writing this headline correctly. Let's not start calling citizens "homegrowns" please.

I guess unless the plan is to be able to binge order lots of random immigrants with free shipping and next day delivery.

Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’ Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

Yes, sure, this vile rhetoric perfectly summarizes the connection between racism and capitalism, but also, crucially: that's not how Amazon Prime works.

Trump's DHS revokes legal status for migrants who entered the US on Biden-era CBP One app The Department of Homeland Security is telling migrants who entered the country using an online app to leave the United States immediately.

Latest border security plan: go after the people who immigrated legally and punish them for following the law.

Full text April 3, 2025 Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.

“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”

They are so afraid of us.

Surveillance shows Tufts graduate student detained YouTube video by WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Genuine question after watching this terrifying video: how is a person supposed to know whether they are being arrested by real police officers or abducted by criminals?

Everyone is blaming Waltz, but why did no one—not even the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard—say that they should not be discussing classified information on Signal.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

But her emails...

I mean it's not so much a "conspiracy", it's just that hundreds of millions of people across the globe would strongly prefer if you died, so...

Trump Sends Hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador announced that his country had taken in more than 200 prisoners whom the U.S. has accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang.

Is there still bipartisan support for the belief that Venezuela is not El Salvador? They are not being sent "back." We are paying another government $6 million to take them.

We know our guy can be unreliable, so we asked another unreliable guy to check on him. Also, they're the same guy.

Goldman Sachs’ chief economist just downgraded the entire U.S. economy as Trump’s latest tariff salvo rattles markets The storied investment bank has forecast GDP growth to come in below Wall Street’s consensus for the first time in 2½ years.

Get ready to start hearing that Goldman Sachs is a mouthpiece for globalist propaganda.

sadopopulism: n. A political strategy or occurrence in which a leader appeals to people by harming them but making them believe that people they hate are at fault and/or are being harmed worse.

Just learned this word recently and finding it useful. (Coined by @timothysnyder.bsky.social )

Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.

Yet another escalation in the current administration's campaign against free speech on college campuses.

AP teams deliver major scoops examining work of Musk's DOGE | The Associated Press As the Trump administration undertakes sweeping moves to revamp the federal government, AP’s Washington news and investigative teams have been closely

Good scoops, AP... now please do a profile that helps me understand how there were over 20 people who were apparently against dismantling critical public services but somehow worked for DOGE for like 2 weeks before they realized that was the plan.

Image of dozens of police lining up to protect a Tesla dealership.

Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious picture to remind us that police exist to protect the property of the ruling class, not the rights of the people.

Can't tell if these guys suck at AI, or if their AI is making fun of them.